Using conventions
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This document provides guidance on answering exam questions about using conventions from real media texts in your own work. It emphasizes showing how your understanding of conventions has developed over time through various projects. It recommends discussing both technical conventions as well as symbolic conventions related to narrative, representation, themes and messages. Students are advised to structure their answer with an introduction about the projects, paragraphs discussing skills and examples from early and later projects, and a conclusion. The document also contains advice on analyzing other students' work and planning essay answers.
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- 1. Using Conventions from real media texts
- 2. What does this question require – what is the ’skill’. • Unlike something like research and planning the ’skill’ is is not that obvious. • Using Conventions from real media texts You do not need to list all the convention you have followed You do need to discuss why you followed some conventions You should talk about why you challenged some conventions The skill is about how you have become better/ more sophisticated in your understanding and use of conventions You need to talk about more than technical conventions. Discuss ‘symbolic’ conventions – narrative, character, representation, Goodwin, themes, messages etc. You should show that a greater understanding of how to use conventions has made your work better in Year 13!
- 3. A very simple structure Paragraph 1 should be an introduction which explains which projects you did. It can be quite short. Paragraph 2 should pick up the skill area and perhaps suggest something about your starting point with it- what skills did you have already and how were these illustrated. Use an example. Paragraph 3 should talk through your use of that skill in early projects and what you learned and developed through these. Again there should be examples to support all that you say. Paragraph 4 should go on to demonstrate how the skill developed in later projects, again backed by examples, and reflecting back on how this represents moves forward for you from your early position. Paragraph 5 should be a short conclusion Remember it's only half an hour and you need to range across all your work!
- 4. Conventions of Thriller films? Camera Editing Mise en Scene Sound Where did you see them in real films?
- 5. Conventions of Thriller films? Representation of people Narratives and characters Themes and messages World View Where did you see them in real films?
- 6. How did you use, develop and/or challenged these conventions?
- 7. Analysing last years work • Each group need to log into the computer and bring up a copy of their final Thriller opening from last year. • You now need to swap over computers so that you are looking at another groups work. • You are going to analyse their work looking at how they have followed conventions and how they have challenge conventions. Write up a list – this will go to the group in question so make it professional. • Write a summary statement (at least 100 words) where you evaluation how effectively they followed conventions ( also think about how it affected you as an audience) and the effect of not following conventions and/or challenging them. • Print off and give to the group • As a group discuss the feedback you have received
- 8. Why is genre important - Institutions • Film producers use genre as a means of minimising the economic risk in making films • Film distributors/exhibitors use genre as a means of advertising and promoting films • Both depend upon audiences’ foreknowledge and past experience
- 9. Why is genre important - Audience • Audiences use genre to give them predictable pleasures when consuming/watching a film • Audiences have certain expectations of genre films • Audiences expect genre films to involve innovation, inflection/subversion of the generic conventions
- 10. Conventions of Music Videos • List common conventions of music video. You need to cover the conventions of performance, narrative, concept, conventions surrounding representation, and the ideas of Goodwin • Share your list with other people
- 11. Your own work • You are now going to consider how you have followed conventions and how you have challenge conventions. Write up a list. • Write a summary statement of how your use of conventions has developed changed between the two productions. • Remember that you will need to talk about more than one production so it could be a good idea to look back at ‘Why does love do this to me’ and your axillary text as well
- 12. Past Essays • Read through the examples from past students (not all from our school) • Considering the marks that they got discuss as a class what makes a good essay and what things should you avoid doing
- 13. Planning your answer • You are going to choose one of the questions on the next slide and prepare an essay plan using the template provided of how you would answer the question. • Remember the simple plan you were told about at the start of the lesson.
- 14. Planning your answer. • Explain how far your understanding of the conventions of existing media text influenced the way you created your own media products. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how this understanding developed over time. • Describe how your analysis of the convention of real media informed your own creative media practice. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how this understanding developed over time. • Explain the most significant ways in which your media productions were informed by your understanding of the conventions of real media text. Refer to a range of examples in your answer to show how this understanding developed over time.